Is the fall of constantinople the greatest event to happen in all of history?It kickstarted the modern era and with it everything that came after:the renaissancescientific revolutionprotestant reformationeuropean enlightementsecond agricultural revolutionindustrial revolutionopium warsnapoleonic warsfrench revolutionamerican revolutionary waramerican civil warbolshevik revolutionworld war 1world war 2cold warand much more that i missedvery little stuff thats relevant for today happened before the fall of constantinople
>>18069585>the renaissanceStarted over a century and a half before in Northern Italy and was far more than just Greek texts.Literally everything else you mentioned is effectively unrelated.
>>18069613>Started over a century and a half before in Northern Italy and was far more than just Greek texts.name the things about it that are so great that arent greek? the only thing that makes it good is the resurgance of greek philosophy and science>Literally everything else you mentioned is effectively unrelated.its things that happened after the fall, that would not have happened otherwise
>>18069613Psellos was the first Renaissance man and he lived in Constantinople in the 11th century.
>>18069620>name the things about it that are so great that arent greek? The reception of Roman jurisprudence.
>>18069585They couldn't invent jackshit for a 1000 years because they couldn't concentrate living next to rapist islamist slavers.
>>18069585>was throwing down of the heavenly kingdom's eastern gate a good thing?No, no it was not. The dark gained access to the light and no good came of it.
